Pharmaceutical Corporate Contracts Manager — R&D

Kelly Services; Alameda (CA); Presencial; USD 64.000 - 91.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays & transit benefit

Descripción de la vacante

Kelly Services is seeking an experienced Pharmaceutical Corporate Contracts Manager - R&D to join the Legal Department’s R&D Contracting team in Alameda, CA. The role requires drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating a range of clinical and research agreements in a fast-paced environment.

You will partner with Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Finance to ensure risk-aware contracting and to improve templates and playbooks.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of contracts experience or JD with 2+ years.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating CTAs and other clinical-study agreements.
• Experience negotiating with counterparties, not just administration.
• Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, clinical research.

Responsabilidades

• Draft, review, redline, negotiate, and manage research and development agreements, including CTAs, CDAs, consulting agreements, MSAs, SOWs, IIS, MTAs, DUAs, collaborative research agreements, and amendments.
• Negotiate directly with counterparties and manage contracts from intake through execution.
• Provide practical guidance to business partners on contract terms, obligations, and risk mitigation.
• Identify legal, contractual, operational, and compliance risks; communicate them to stakeholders and recommend solutions.
• Partner with teams across Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Research, Biometrics, Procurement, and Finance.
• Help develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Support contracting process improvements, systems, and special projects.

Conocimientos

Drafting contracts

Contract negotiation

Clinical trial agreements

CTAs/CDAs

Cross-functional collaboration

Biotech/pharma knowledge

Educación

Bachelor’s degree

Juris Doctor (JD)

Descripción del empleo

Pharmaceutical Corporate Contracts Manager - R&D

Pay:

$56 per hour

Location:

Alameda, CA 94502

Schedule:

Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Duration:

Temporary assignment for six months

About the role

Seeking an experienced Contracts Manager II to join its Legal Department’s R&D Contracting team. Reporting to the Associate Corporate Counsel, Contracts, you’ll support Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Research, and other R&D functions.

This role is a strong fit for a hands‑on contracts professional who can independently draft, review, redline, and negotiate clinical and research agreements. You’ll work closely with internal teams and external counterparties, providing practical, risk‑aware contracting guidance in a collaborative, fast‑paced environment.

What you’ll do

• Draft, review, redline, negotiate, and manage research and development agreements, including Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs), Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs), consulting agreements, vendor and Master Services Agreements (MSAs), work orders, Statements of Work (SOWs), Investigator-Initiated Study (IIS) agreements, Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs), Data Use Agreements (DUAs), collaborative research agreements, and amendments.
• Negotiate directly with counterparties and manage contracts from intake through execution.
• Provide practical guidance to business partners on contract terms, obligations, and risk mitigation.
• Identify legal, contractual, operational, and compliance risks; communicate them to stakeholders and recommend solutions.
• Partner with teams across Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Research, Biometrics, Procurement, and Finance.
• Help develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Support contracting process improvements, systems, and special projects.

Approximate workload:

60% CTAs, 30% CDAs, and 10% other R&D contracts.

What you’ll bring

• A bachelor’s degree and at least three years of recent, hands‑on contracts experience supporting contract drafting and negotiation; or a JD and at least two years of related experience.
• Direct experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating CTAs and other clinical-study-related agreements.
• Experience negotiating with counterparties—not solely contract administration or coordination.
• Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, clinical research

Benefits

• Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability.
• As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account.
• In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan.

Why Kelly Science & Clinical?

Kelly Science & Clinical is your connection to premier scientific and clinical companies looking to hire industry experts just like you. Our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world’s most critical challenges. Every day, we match science professionals with dream jobs that fit their skills, interests, and career goals—it’s the way we think job searching should be. Nearly 100 percent of our science recruiters have a professional background and education in science, so we know a thing or two about the science market and how to get your expertise noticed.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

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